I’ve been criticizing JM’s ‘park the bus’ mentality recently, and going against the ‘Harry Hotspur Vibe’ of ‘JM is the bees knees’… but… (putting helmet on and readying for the abuse)… I thought this was a good performance bar conceding 3 soft goals. It was entertaining football, we should have won (except for those minutes of madness near the end of the first half). Those moments where players ‘switch off’ aren’t Jose’s fault per se. I don’t know why the players (even the Vikings) seem to have these switch off moments and maybe JM could stick a cattle prod up the a%se of anyone that does that in training… but otherwise this was a good performance against a good team
Lord Croker
3 years ago
If the cupboard remains empty of medals and silverware I fear the best players will leave to clubs that guarantee success on a regular basis. Who wouldn’t?
Even in the 90s we had great players. And in Levys first ten years. Lineker.Gazza.Sheringham i adored in the 90s… Kane is unreal and we have a handful of good players… But 5 or 6 good players out of a full squad is poor. The other 20 odd are not good enough.. Lo celso returns are poor he’s injured more than pammy. Too many poor players let us down, davies winks dele were all rubbish and put pressure on us.
I’m at work and had it on radio. They were laughing trying to decide who he would blame, acknowledged it wouldn’t be himself tho. Bale, alli, and God knows who will take the fall before he does thats for sure
Won’t happen for the simple reason that if kane and son have any brain at all they will leave. This is NOT a football club, the fact our beloved leader thinks he can just go and grab the biggest name in management and everything will be ok proves it. The club is a shambles from top to bottom and before people start with their rubbish about go follow arsenal, if you back this then you are part of the problem, because the longer this fraud gets away with it the longer it will stay the same. To quote the old saying on here jam tomorrow
All you can ask of any manager/coach is that they get their squad playing at a level that’s greater than the sum of its parts. I believe that’s what the last guy did during his first 4 years. So far, Maureen has managed that for about 2 months with a squad, I’d argue, is somewhat better than the one he inherited.
In that respect, I think he’s currently failing. Let’s hope he and the squad improve during the rest of this season and the next window.
Trouble wiv stats though Taps is that the passing accuracy figure includes all those tippy tappy passes across the back line and to the goalkeeper which we did for much of the time we had possession.
Billytheyid
3 years ago
What has he improved in this lot? Everyone knows my feelings about the biggest problem but I want someone to tell me one thing jose has improved. Results still poor. Style, drastically worse, team spirit seems poor. 15m a year and there has not been a jot of improvement
We are not cohesive enough as a team to analyse where weaknesses in that team structure are. We look like individuals losing like individuals because that’s what we’ve become. We aren’t team right now.
He isn’t being blamed (though I’m fairly sure I saw him being subbed on the pitch at some point, so he probably did play), but arguably, the subs made us even worse.
We’ve got Kane, Son, Reguilón, Lloris, Hojbjerg, Lo Celso & N’dombele; and you think this is the worst in, how long? That’s more than half a team of players who wouldn’t look out of place in any top 4 side in Europe. Did you see our players during Levy’s first 10 years? Or see us during the 90s?
I’m not convinced our players are quite as bad as our recent performances.
What about losing to Brighton 1-0 and not even passing the halfway line?
Wba are garbage and let us play like we let other teams play ,brain farts lost this .
I’m not blaming Jose, but there’s more to management than trying different players here and there.
Rightly so, Jose was lauded for the typically effective tactics he employed that saw us top of the league. I’m not a fan of the spectacle but it was working, 1-6 at Utd 2-0 at home to City.
If we’ve done it before, why can’t we do it now? I’m not disputing the fact that we need some players at the back but you can’t just blame the players for not doing what they were doing a few months ago. It’s a collective responsibility shared by all involved and involves work done in preparation for games and training…
Maybe worth a few quid at some point,now worth nowt.
Willie!
3 years ago
Comedy, drama, action – at least it was entertaining.
Dexter
3 years ago
H, your defence of José ,I’m afraid is falling on deaf ears. I have tried, honestly I’ve tried. It was an entertaining match if you’re a neutral, but this week-on-week nonsence is turgid. How many weeks, how many matches must we go on and on and on….. This is the defensive guru, the master of not letting goals in. He’s failing. A season and a half, and we concede and concede and we lose and we lose. If we were just losing to the top 3/4/5/6 I can take that, but we’re not. We’re losing all over the place, and it’s utterly predictable. I want this manager out of my club as soon as possible. If you can give me a reason to change my mind I’d like to hear it please.
Who do we stick in front of the onion bag if Hugo goes? Hart?
East Stand
3 years ago
What are we right now? We aren’t the pragmatic yet efficient Jose winning machine we were supposed to be morphing into after beating Utd and City. Where’s that?
We aren’t losing 2-1 from not attacking enough, we are now scoring and letting goals in like nobody’s business. We have no identity, perhaps trapped between two identities? Who knows, all I know is that right now we look rudderless…
When he arrived he stated clearly that he believed our squad to be quality. He has since added players. We currently look little better than when he arrived halfway through last season, and we’re certainly worse than we were during this season’s first couple of months. Some have said it’s entirely the fault of the players; if that’s true, Jose can’t be confused, just misguided.
Remember that All Or Nought scene where he was humouring Levy about Winks, cracked me up so much seeing José pretending he thinks Winks is a quality player agreeing with Levy 😂
ry7itt5r
3 years ago
well if this doesn’t show that we need new defenders I don’t know what will
When your squad Is thin then the only option we have is bench-dross.
MagicMan
3 years ago
What’s the excuse tonight
It was cold
It was a Wednesday
The players were upset and miserable
All the Everton goals were offside
Jamesspurs
3 years ago
Winks comes on awful first touch leads to Everton goal, then goes and get booked, attempted one cross which went high and wide out for a goal kick, tried three passes forward all went right to an Everton player, attempted one shot that almost hit the corner flag. Has to be the worst sub ever made…..
Winks, probably the worst ever substitute performance, ever!
And for goodness sake, can we invest in a decent goalkeeper?
HarryKaneIsInOurHearts
3 years ago
Went out fighting but doesn’t make losing any more bearable. I thought he was supposed to serve up winning but boring football. If we play like that this weekend City will break the PL goals record.
Cabspur
3 years ago
A few big brain darts didn’t help…
Elevenstonedidiots
3 years ago
A fair amount of dross in that Spurs team at the final whistle. Anyway I was entertained, thats the main thing.
Lilywhitesmurf
3 years ago
RIP
MagicMan
3 years ago
The tactical genius cup king
1 down
3 left
Lilywhite without the II
3 years ago
the good news is Jose is a little bit happy because his mate won..
I’ve been criticizing JM’s ‘park the bus’ mentality recently, and going against the ‘Harry Hotspur Vibe’ of ‘JM is the bees knees’… but… (putting helmet on and readying for the abuse)… I thought this was a good performance bar conceding 3 soft goals. It was entertaining football, we should have won (except for those minutes of madness near the end of the first half). Those moments where players ‘switch off’ aren’t Jose’s fault per se. I don’t know why the players (even the Vikings) seem to have these switch off moments and maybe JM could stick a cattle prod up the a%se of anyone that does that in training… but otherwise this was a good performance against a good team
If the cupboard remains empty of medals and silverware I fear the best players will leave to clubs that guarantee success on a regular basis. Who wouldn’t?
Winks coming on was the turning of the tide… Maureen has to stop using him for big games. Same as Dele. I would say Davies too.
Even in the 90s we had great players. And in Levys first ten years. Lineker.Gazza.Sheringham i adored in the 90s… Kane is unreal and we have a handful of good players… But 5 or 6 good players out of a full squad is poor. The other 20 odd are not good enough.. Lo celso returns are poor he’s injured more than pammy. Too many poor players let us down, davies winks dele were all rubbish and put pressure on us.
It’s failing mate. It’s utterly failing. Don’t second best in the league me. It’s a shambles.
After the way he has been hung out did you really expect better? He is mentally out the door.
Shouldn’t Dele have been moved in the last window? What we have now is another Eriksen Rose fiasco. Levy can’t see it.
Second best defence in the league is hardly failing!
I’m at work and had it on radio. They were laughing trying to decide who he would blame, acknowledged it wouldn’t be himself tho. Bale, alli, and God knows who will take the fall before he does thats for sure
Won’t happen for the simple reason that if kane and son have any brain at all they will leave. This is NOT a football club, the fact our beloved leader thinks he can just go and grab the biggest name in management and everything will be ok proves it. The club is a shambles from top to bottom and before people start with their rubbish about go follow arsenal, if you back this then you are part of the problem, because the longer this fraud gets away with it the longer it will stay the same. To quote the old saying on here jam tomorrow
I think it might have been everton’s fault.
Its all Gareth Bale’s fault….or was it Ben Davies ?
All you can ask of any manager/coach is that they get their squad playing at a level that’s greater than the sum of its parts. I believe that’s what the last guy did during his first 4 years. So far, Maureen has managed that for about 2 months with a squad, I’d argue, is somewhat better than the one he inherited.
In that respect, I think he’s currently failing. Let’s hope he and the squad improve during the rest of this season and the next window.
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Oh, and the the cheese tasting is world class…
We have the finest twisty bridge in world football!!
Everyone is bad right now, mix and match and it makes no difference. They look bereft of confidence too at the moment, especially at the back.
Trouble wiv stats though Taps is that the passing accuracy figure includes all those tippy tappy passes across the back line and to the goalkeeper which we did for much of the time we had possession.
What has he improved in this lot? Everyone knows my feelings about the biggest problem but I want someone to tell me one thing jose has improved. Results still poor. Style, drastically worse, team spirit seems poor. 15m a year and there has not been a jot of improvement
We are not cohesive enough as a team to analyse where weaknesses in that team structure are. We look like individuals losing like individuals because that’s what we’ve become. We aren’t team right now.
Yep.
Tottenham had more possession, more shots. More passes with a better pass accuracy and 13 more corners than them. Means nothing when you lose though
https://www.90min.com/posts/every-premier-league-goalkeeper-in-2019-20-ranked-by-save-percentage
Yeah, but some tell me I harp on about individual mistakes too much..and I do, but that’s just because it’s still true.
Too many brainfarters in the squad.
He isn’t being blamed (though I’m fairly sure I saw him being subbed on the pitch at some point, so he probably did play), but arguably, the subs made us even worse.
We’ve got Kane, Son, Reguilón, Lloris, Hojbjerg, Lo Celso & N’dombele; and you think this is the worst in, how long? That’s more than half a team of players who wouldn’t look out of place in any top 4 side in Europe. Did you see our players during Levy’s first 10 years? Or see us during the 90s?
I’m not convinced our players are quite as bad as our recent performances.
It was a shower of players who couldn’t score, and another shower who couldn’t defend. Entertainment? No
Doherty is utter pance…
Good striker though!
Yeah it would, so why didn’t we?
No, so he can’t be blamed. Neither can Bale…
What about losing to Brighton 1-0 and not even passing the halfway line?
Wba are garbage and let us play like we let other teams play ,brain farts lost this .
Absolutely. Nor Sanchez, Lamela, Moura, Davies or Dogherty
He persisted with Dier though and has he been any better than Winks?
We have a decent one out on loan.
I’m not blaming Jose, but there’s more to management than trying different players here and there.
Rightly so, Jose was lauded for the typically effective tactics he employed that saw us top of the league. I’m not a fan of the spectacle but it was working, 1-6 at Utd 2-0 at home to City.
If we’ve done it before, why can’t we do it now? I’m not disputing the fact that we need some players at the back but you can’t just blame the players for not doing what they were doing a few months ago. It’s a collective responsibility shared by all involved and involves work done in preparation for games and training…
Agree.
Certainly not, we’ll have to buy one. Pope, even the gooner that went to Villa.
Maybe worth a few quid at some point,now worth nowt.
Comedy, drama, action – at least it was entertaining.
H, your defence of José ,I’m afraid is falling on deaf ears. I have tried, honestly I’ve tried. It was an entertaining match if you’re a neutral, but this week-on-week nonsence is turgid. How many weeks, how many matches must we go on and on and on….. This is the defensive guru, the master of not letting goals in. He’s failing. A season and a half, and we concede and concede and we lose and we lose. If we were just losing to the top 3/4/5/6 I can take that, but we’re not. We’re losing all over the place, and it’s utterly predictable. I want this manager out of my club as soon as possible. If you can give me a reason to change my mind I’d like to hear it please.
Pls don’t remind us in order it was bad enough the first time.😤
Who do we stick in front of the onion bag if Hugo goes? Hart?
What are we right now? We aren’t the pragmatic yet efficient Jose winning machine we were supposed to be morphing into after beating Utd and City. Where’s that?
We aren’t losing 2-1 from not attacking enough, we are now scoring and letting goals in like nobody’s business. We have no identity, perhaps trapped between two identities? Who knows, all I know is that right now we look rudderless…
Good job the transfer window just closed!
And I dope hope Poch really does want Lloris.
When he arrived he stated clearly that he believed our squad to be quality. He has since added players. We currently look little better than when he arrived halfway through last season, and we’re certainly worse than we were during this season’s first couple of months. Some have said it’s entirely the fault of the players; if that’s true, Jose can’t be confused, just misguided.
Remember that All Or Nought scene where he was humouring Levy about Winks, cracked me up so much seeing José pretending he thinks Winks is a quality player agreeing with Levy 😂
well if this doesn’t show that we need new defenders I don’t know what will
Can’t blame Jose tonight. He’s tried every player in the squad and it’s still not good enough. The squad just isn’t up to it. We know this.
This is the worst Spurs squad for many years.
I repeat my first reply.
Well, that’s what managers are paid to do. We weren’t playing Barcelona tonight…
I think Jose is as confused as we are….the “squad” is average and he cant put a reliable team together…
Neither of these teams look like trophy winners.
When your squad Is thin then the only option we have is bench-dross.
What’s the excuse tonight
It was cold
It was a Wednesday
The players were upset and miserable
All the Everton goals were offside
Winks comes on awful first touch leads to Everton goal, then goes and get booked, attempted one cross which went high and wide out for a goal kick, tried three passes forward all went right to an Everton player, attempted one shot that almost hit the corner flag. Has to be the worst sub ever made…..
Trouble is we’re incapable of either at the moment against anyone half decent.
We needed fresh legs and depressingly those legs were connected to some truly garbage players. We were better before the subs
Agree. A boring 1-0 win and still being in the cup would have been a lot better than that ’entertainment’.
keep saying it winks and dier simply should not be playing for spurs
And we hold the record for biggest attendance at a PL game on a Tuesday night which won’t be surpassed antime soon
Winks Dele Moura Sanchez Loris Davies Doherty hang your heads. Ndom man up ffs this is the PL. Take the knocks.
Wot, not for the rest of the season?
We’ve won that league by a mile.
Probably the worst possible conclusion – pushed to ET, had to bring on Kane relatively early on and still lost.
Winks’s cameo was absolutely tragic, and even some of our more solid players had a stinker tonight.
But hey, this is the more entertaining stuff so many fans seem to wish for? “At least we played well”
Well I’ll take a 2-0 VS WBA over this anytime, thank you very much. Hope people will remember this.
Did Dele play?
Yeah apart from the saves.
City in the final, not a hope…Europa, dont think so….4th, no chance….the good news is we are top top the debt league…
Desperately need rid of winks, sissoko, Doherty, Sanchez, Davies, Dele. Leave the door open for Bale and Vinicius as well
Jesus wept. Winks was a disaster and Alli not much better. We played with more intensity but you cannot concede 5 goals and expect to win
Brain darts are needed for some
Winks, probably the worst ever substitute performance, ever!
And for goodness sake, can we invest in a decent goalkeeper?
Went out fighting but doesn’t make losing any more bearable. I thought he was supposed to serve up winning but boring football. If we play like that this weekend City will break the PL goals record.
A few big brain darts didn’t help…
A fair amount of dross in that Spurs team at the final whistle. Anyway I was entertained, thats the main thing.
RIP
The tactical genius cup king
1 down
3 left
the good news is Jose is a little bit happy because his mate won..
and take winks with you
Shot winksy
Bloody Winks..
Is may as well be playing for them
I hope everyone calling for deli got what they wanted…
Giving up three goals in seven minutes done us but they never threw the towel in which is encouraging.
Giving it a go the last 10.
When was the last time Kane scored a free kick, was it against Villa all those years ago?
Can’t fault the effort, just not our night.
free kicks…ok, just give the ball back…jeeze
It’s ironic that he’s championship standard and Skipp isn’t. Classic Spurs
Winks I’d taking it to his lowest level.ever…
Pls don’t say he is going to the euros?
Can we sub Winks pls
We do buy some absolute whoppers don’t we
Jeez Sanchez is a truly awful defender.
Ndom has f all heart by the way.
Good marking by Docherty and Sanchez for their last goal…
With no Ndom Kane needs to drop deep. Leave Vini and Son up
Winks looks like hes been brought in from the U18s.
1.1 Billion in debt…
West Brom are our level….
I worry for Sunday…